Paul B. wrote:Well I thought that "heavy hors d'oeuvres" was kind of funny too - aren't they supposed to be light?

That's just a clumsily worded sentence in which the adjective heavy is meant to modify event rather than hors d'oeuvre but is placed in an ambiguous location. There's also the missing comma in the appositive in the first sentence, which is an outright error. The typo is a howler, though.

It's funny because I saw "heavy hors d'oeuvres" in an ad for this weekend's local paper and although I understood what they meant I thought it was strange too! But I did catch the nuisance mistake as well...

Paul B. wrote:Well I thought that "heavy hors d'oeuvres" was kind of funny too - aren't they supposed to be light?

That's just a clumsily worded sentence in which the adjective heavy is meant to modify event rather than hors d'oeuvre but is placed in an ambiguous location. There's also the missing comma in the appositive in the first sentence, which is an outright error. The typo is a howler, though.